“It was the dawn of the third age of mankind.” WarAgeMankindThirdsDawnGatheringBabylon Author:J. Michael Straczynski
“Nor is a day lived if the dawn is left out of it, with the prospects it opens. Who speaks charmingly of nature or of mankind, like him who comes bibulous of sunrise and the fountains of waters?” IfsLeftSpeakWaterMorningMankindDawnSunriseFountainProspectsLeft Out Book:Tablets Source: Tablets
“In the history of thought and culture the dark nights have perhaps in some ways cost mankind less grief than the false dawns, the prison houses in which hope persists less grief than the promised lands where hope expires.” WayNightCultureHouseDarkGriefLandMankindCostPrisonDawnPersistDark NightPromised Land Book:A Mania for Magnificence Source: A Mania for Magnificence
“There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound; And frogs in the pool singing at night, And wild plum trees in tremulous white; Robins will wear their feathery fire, Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire; And not one will know of the war, not one Will care at last when it is done. Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree, If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself when she woke at dawn Would scarcely know that we were gone.” IfsKnowsMindWarDoneCareLastsNightSoundWhiteGoneFireTreeMankindSpringSingingLowsBirdRainSmellDawnPoolFenceWireFrogsWhimRobinsPlumsWhistling Book:Collected Poems Source: Collected Poems
“Since mankind's dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so, they took our power. By doing nothing, we gave it away. We've seen where their way leads, through camps and wars, towards the slaughterhouse.” WayShouldWarPoliticsResponsibilityPowerOur LivesMankindShould HaveAcceptedDawnCampsHandfulDoing NothingOppressorsSlaughterhousesVendetta Author:Alan Moore